Container shipping usually works in the background.
For us in shipping, these boxes are part of life.
For most people, they are almost invisible.
They see the product.
They rarely see the box behind it.
Around 280 million containers move through the network a year.
That is over 750,000 containers a day.
Now imagine that flow stops tomorrow.
What happens first?
Factories?
Shops?
Prices?
Or does the real damage appear somewhere less obvious?
And how quickly does a shipping problem become a business problem?
Here are 5️⃣ signals behind the answer:
1️⃣ The scale is hard to replace
The world moves around 12bn tonnes of international cargo by sea a year.
Around 2bn tonnes move in containers.
Airlines move just over 62m tonnes a year.
Container shipping moves around 30× more cargo by weight than air.